Long-Delayed U.S. Panel on Reading Yet to Be Named
Literacy experts lament lack of follow-up to influential review of research in 2000.
The slow pace of Washington bureaucracy is the stuff of legend, and, occasionally, satire. But even by Washington standards, the progress of the Commission on Reading Research has been particularly plodding.
In the words of one observer, “If we had held our breath, I guess we’d all be dead.”
Now officials with the National Institute for Literacy, which announced more than two years ago that it was seeking nominations for a commission to follow up the influential work of the National Reading Panel, say they are close to a...
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